Jessica Diaz Column: Music everywhre 04-27-2008

Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, April 26, 2008

In our household, like so many others, music is a big part of our everyday lives.

In any given day, my family listens to anything from the Beatles to T.I.

My son, J'Ryn, 10, has his favorites. He and I get ready for school and work together in the mornings. He will come into my room and put on Mr. Roboto from Styx then turn around and put on Motley Crue, our ultimate favorite band.

It's a funny thing with him. He has grown up loving hard rock music. For his eighth birthday, I took him to see Motley Crue in Lubbock, and he has been a die-hard Crue fan ever since.

As I said earlier, J'Ryn has a very wide span of favorite music. He loves '80s rock like Quiet Riot, AC/DC, Van Halen, Metallica, Guns and Roses and Twisted Sister. But he also loves the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Jimmy Hendrix and the Beach Boys.

Yes, the Beach Boys!

And you rarely see him not wearing a rock T-shirt.

My daughter J.J., meanwhile, listens to more R&B and Reggaton. When she is cleaning house she has the TV on BET, Channel 36; or Mun2, Channel 61.

We invited her to see Motley Crue with us but she said she wasn't crazy.

Hurtis, my husband, and I change our radio in our room back and forth from 94.5 FMX in the evenings to 104.9 Da Beat in the mornings. And we can't get enough of VH1 Classic, Channel 236.

We also have a wide variety of mixed CDs of our favorite songs, from rock to metal to country.

When I'm at work I listen to XM Radio  the Bone Yard  stadium and hair bands rock, and the 80s channel. I have to stop myself from singing out loud.

My stepdaughter, Maddie, 6, knows any song you put on the radio, along with the dance. She can do the Superman! She is too cute.

Right about now you might be saying to yourself, "I don't care what kind of music you listen to, Miss Jessica, and where is this story going.?"

Well, I know many of you listen to music, when you're by yourself, that you wouldn't be caught dead listening to in front of other.

I'm closing this story off with a few of those songs, the ones I sing at the top of my lungs when I'm at home with my family or alone:

Jessie's Girl: Rick Springfield

The Reflex: Duran Duran

I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight: Cutting Crew

Touch Myself: The Divinyls

Milkshake: Kelis

Friends in Low Places: Garth Brooks

Hit Me with your Best Shot: Pat Benatar (I sang this song at a Karaoke club in New York. Nobody knew me there anyways. My little brother, Marco, was so embarrassed, but I sang my little heart out . . . woo hoo!)

(Jessica Diaz is editorial assistant for the Plainview Daily Herald. Contact her at 806-296-1357 or jessica@plainviewdailyherald.com)